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Altar Of Plagues @ The Borderline, Soho |
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Altar of Plagues
Necro Deathmort
Grumbling Fur
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The Borderline, Soho
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It looks as though all of about thirty people have shown up for tonight’s show at The Borderline, in Soho, London. It's not surprising really – it’s a Sunday and most people are still hanging out of their arse from Cathedral's performance the night before.
Alexander Tucker and The Haxan Cloak have pulled out of the line up, leaving it down to Necro Deathmort to open the show – their love of experimentation is a definite crowd pleaser. The peculiarly named Grumbling Fur are up next and manage to sweet talk their way out of technical difficulties; what they possess in musical ability is matched with charm.
Altar of Plagues make the highlights of the night by opening with ‘All Life Converges to Some Centre’ and closing with ‘Feather and Bone’. However, they are sloppy in their performance – starting off out of tune, coming in at the wrong times, pulling a lead out then spending the majority of the song desperately trying to plug it back in. Amazingly, despite all of this they manage to be uncompromisingly intense and demand a stage presence that’s impossible to ignore. Perhaps next time they should leave the antlers at home; getting on your knees halfway through a set to bang a pair together is horribly tacky. Their guitarist throwing his instrument down in a strop at the end of the night is quite unprofessional if not totally rock ‘n’ roll! Altar of Plagues prove you don’t need to be as tight as a nun to still kick ass. |
Reviewed by Angela Davey
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